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DUCK RIVER. AKA and see "Dubuque," "Old Dubuque," "General Lee," "Hell on the Nine Mile," "Sally in the Green Corn." Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Magoffin Count, Ky. D Major. Standard or ADae tunings (fiddle). AABB. Jeff Titon (2001) says the specific "Duck River" tune seems to be particular to the Salyer family, although it is part of a fairly common tune family. Titon says the tune family to which "Duck River" belongs also includes "Ma Ferguson," "Nancy Dawson (2)," "Nancy Dalton," and "Hell Up Coal Holler (2)." See also "Mabel," "Possum Up a Gum Stump," and "Drum Tune."

Additional notes

Printed sources : - S. Johnson (The Kitchen Musician No. 2: Occasional Collection of Old-Timey Fiddle Tunes for Hammer Dulcimer, Fiddle, etc.), 1982 (revised 1988, 2003); p. 8. Milliner * Koken (Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes), 2011; p. 173. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes vol. 2), 1995; p. 45. Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 67. Titon (Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes), 2001; No. 35, p. 68. Samuel P. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife), 1981: No. 235, p. 195.

Recorded sources : - Bruce Greene - "Vintage Fiddle Tunes." Berea College Appalachian Center AC003, John M. Salyer - "Home Recordings 1941-42, vol. 1" (1993). Oak Records OOK CD 001, "Brittany Haas" (2004).

See also listing at :
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear John Salyer's recording at Slippery-Hill [2], Berea Sound Archives [3], and at the Digital Library of Appalachia [4]

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